Maryland

ANNAPOLIS The Women Legislators of Maryland will focus this legislative session on issues such as substance abuse and treatment, women and children’s health, gender bias, domestic violence and economic empowerment

COLUMBIA – Josh Cramer starts his second-period class by pulling out a single pink long-stemmed rose

WASHINGTON – President Clinton wants them gone within five years

BOWIE – The Rev

WASHINGTON – Abortion-rights supporters in Maryland had little time last week to celebrate a $107 million Oregon verdict against an anti-abortion web site that has now turned its focus on doctors here

ANNAPOLIS It may be a wet winter but don’t let that fool you; Maryland has not lifted its statewide advisory to take shorter showers and conserve water in general

WASHINGTON – The state and six counties will get $3

ANNAPOLIS Police this week asked state legislators for more tools in their increasingly high-tech war against child pornography, but critics warned that quirks in Internet technology could unfairly subject innocent people to prosecution

ANNAPOLIS State inspectors visiting hospice programs have uncovered long-standing and serious problems that the current 10-year inspection cycle allows to continue for too long, the licensing director of the state health department told the General Assembly this week

ANNAPOLIS- Back-to-school clothes may be five percent cheaper next year if some legislators win General Assembly approval for a bill creating a sales tax-free week in Maryland